Alex Comfort
Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician best known for his 1972 nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex. He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector.
Read more about Alex Comfort: Early Life and Education, Life and Work, Personal Life, Partial Bibliography
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“My smiling child
Named for a noble ancestor
Great hunter or warrior
You will be one day.
Which will give your papa pride
But always I will remember you thus.”
—African Lullaby. As quoted in Roots, by Alex Haley (1976)
“Now when Job’s three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:11.